The best and brightest of the computing community congregated at San Francisco's Westin St. Francis Hotel to celebrate the winners of the 2005 ACM awards. Among the international notables were the recipients of the Presidential Award, given by ACM President David Patterson, for unique contributions that transcend technical achievements in computing and information technology.

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San Francisco's Westin St. Francis Hotel Peter Naur, 2005 Turing Award winner, with Donald Knuth, 1974 Turing Award winner. Financial support of the Turing Award is provided by the Intel Corporation Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award winners Pierre Wolper, Robert Kurshan, and Gerard Holzmann flanked by ACM CEO John White and ACM President Dave Patterson. The fourth winner, Moshe Vardi, was unable to attend AAAI representative Nils Nilsson (left) holding the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, which was presented to Jack Minker The Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics was presented to Albrecht Ehrensperger, Solomon Mbuguah, and Ernest Siva, for their contributions to the Nakuru Local Observatory project in Kenya, which provided community access to information via terminals in libraries, schools, and non-governmental offices Solomon Mbuguah, one of three winners of the Lawler Award Matt Kaufmann and J Strother Moore, winners of the Software System Award. The third winner, Robert S. Boyer, was unable to attend. Financial support of the award is provided by IBM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award winner Stuart Russell with Tracy Dunkelberger, representing Prentice Hall. Financial support of the award is provided by Prentice Hall Omer Reingold, winner of the Grace Murray Hopper Award. Financial support of the award is provided by Google Doctoral Dissertation Award winner Benjamin Liblit Dave Patterson and ACM-W Chair Elaine Weyuker congratulate Deborah Estrin (right), the first ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award winner Don Gotterbarn, 2005 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award winner Mary Jane Irwin, winner of the 2005 Distinguished Service Award ACM Presidential Award winner Andreas (Andy) Bechtolsheim ACM Presidential Award winner Janice E. (Jan) Cuny ACM Presidential Award winner Edward Lazowska Fourteen of the 34 2005 ACM Fellows attended the Banquet. Among them are: Steve Bourne, Surajit Chaudhuri, T.V. Lakshman, David Nicol, Krishna Palem, Roy Want, David Dill and Michael Franklin (in back row), Jennifer Widom, Phokion Kolaitis, Vipin Kumar, and David Wood Brenda Chow of IBM with International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2006 World Champions: Coach Michael Mirzayanov, Igor Kulkin, Ivan Romanov, and Roman Alekseenkov of Saratov State University, Russia, and Co-Coach Antonina Fedorova. At right are John White and Bill Poucher, ICPC Executive Director. Financial support of ICPC is provided by IBM. John White and Dave Patterson congratulate Student Research Competition Grand Finals winners in the Graduate Division (left to right): Danny Dig, David Janzen, and Yaling Yang, with Mark Lewin of Microsoft. Financial support of SRC is provided by Microsoft John White, Mark Lewin, David Patterson, and Ann Sobel (competition coordinator) with Student Research Competition Grand Finals winners in the Undergraduate Division (left to right): Jeffrey Adair, Scott Hale, and Yuki Mori Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb, Awards Committee Co-Chair, with Dave Patterson. Jim Horning, Awards Committee Co-Chair, with Dave Patterson.